Tuesday, August 14, 2012
going paleo: trying to at least
today i'm trying my hand at paleo baking.
i love banana nut bread. the girlfriend LOVES LOVES LOVES banana nut bread.
so i went to the int4rw3b5 and searched up a recipe for some paleo banana nut bread recipes and found one here: the paleo project
Ingredients:
4 eggs
3 small bananas
3/4 cups of gluten-free coconut flour
1/2 tsp gluten-free baking powder
3 tbs honey
1/4 cup melted coconut oil
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbs cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Using a hand mixer or food processor, combine eggs, bananas, honey, vanilla and coconut oil.
In a bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
Combine wet and dry ingredients. Mix until a thick batter forms.
Pour into a greased bread pan. Cook for 45 minutes at 350 degrees F.
Place broiler on low, broil for 2 minutes with door ajar, watching closely.
Let bread cool. Top with coconut butter, honey and cinnamon.
*For families without nut allergies, I’d recommend adding walnuts.
**For families with egg allergies, a simple egg replacement is 1 egg = 1 tbs flaxseed + 2-3 tbs water.
i substituted blue agave instead of the honey and we didnt have cinnamon but we did have cinnamon sugar.
my boss can't eat nuts (i told her it sounds like a personal problem) so i made it half male / half female.
i've never tried coconut flour or coconut oil, or even tried baking paleo! we'll see how it turns out!
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
disparity
the healthcare industry is one ugly monster. and it's got 2 ugly faces. i've seen them both and i wear both ugly masks.
as a nurse on the floor, you've got 8 hours to ensure the safety of everyone, manage/supervise your downline(s), push pills, provide topnotch assessment of current health states, do all the paperwork, go to meetings, etc... and then you're expected to leave the floor to take a break. ALL WITHOUT GOING INTO OVERTIME. i know it's hard sitting in your nice cushiony office talking all this game when you are so removed from the situation. as a nurse you're supposed to care about that person (ha! you'd be lucky to have 10) you're in charge of, but how is that even possible with such constraints? even if you have the boss time management skills, if you don't cut corners on one or two things, you're going to get chewed out for going over time. but if you cut corners on one or two things, you're going to get chewed out for cutting corners. it's like having the choice of getting punched in the face or getting punched in the gut. tada! that's nursing these days.
now as a cog in the administrative aspect of the industry, you pretty much get to do what you want as long as the money is coming in and you look busy. pretty much. currently i work in the front end of it so i'm basically one of the faces of the facility where i do a lot of meeting and greeting, chit chatting, blah blah blah in addition to some paperwork and verification crap i gotta do but it's WAY EASIER mainly as a result of the lessened stress level. essentially i'm not doing the "actual work".
the "actual work" i'm talking about is the documentation, the "care", the assessment, and pill pushing, and all that jazz where your license to work is on the line each and every moment of every shift. i know bringing in patients, staying within budget, staffing considerations, state and federal guidelines, blah blah blah are all important, but perhaps you should really try to understand where healthcare workers actually stand, what they actually do, and perhaps they should be raised up instead of torn down and told to do more with less.
honestly, if i had known that nursing was going to be this heart wrenching, emotionally trying, physically exhausting, sisyphean trail of tears, i probably would have still done it for the experience... but probably would have been done with it years ago.
i just dont understand why there is such a disparity in healthcare. most notable to me is nursing vs everyone else. nursing (including certified nurse aides) is the hardest job out there with the least amount of respect and recognition and the most amount of retribution whereas the MDs and people in administration get all the kudos and the money for smiling and talking a big game. but who does the actual follow up? the nurses.
so here's to all my nurses out there: past, present, and future: without us, the world would all be living in pain, dead, or a pretty much a zombie.
as a nurse on the floor, you've got 8 hours to ensure the safety of everyone, manage/supervise your downline(s), push pills, provide topnotch assessment of current health states, do all the paperwork, go to meetings, etc... and then you're expected to leave the floor to take a break. ALL WITHOUT GOING INTO OVERTIME. i know it's hard sitting in your nice cushiony office talking all this game when you are so removed from the situation. as a nurse you're supposed to care about that person (ha! you'd be lucky to have 10) you're in charge of, but how is that even possible with such constraints? even if you have the boss time management skills, if you don't cut corners on one or two things, you're going to get chewed out for going over time. but if you cut corners on one or two things, you're going to get chewed out for cutting corners. it's like having the choice of getting punched in the face or getting punched in the gut. tada! that's nursing these days.
now as a cog in the administrative aspect of the industry, you pretty much get to do what you want as long as the money is coming in and you look busy. pretty much. currently i work in the front end of it so i'm basically one of the faces of the facility where i do a lot of meeting and greeting, chit chatting, blah blah blah in addition to some paperwork and verification crap i gotta do but it's WAY EASIER mainly as a result of the lessened stress level. essentially i'm not doing the "actual work".
the "actual work" i'm talking about is the documentation, the "care", the assessment, and pill pushing, and all that jazz where your license to work is on the line each and every moment of every shift. i know bringing in patients, staying within budget, staffing considerations, state and federal guidelines, blah blah blah are all important, but perhaps you should really try to understand where healthcare workers actually stand, what they actually do, and perhaps they should be raised up instead of torn down and told to do more with less.
honestly, if i had known that nursing was going to be this heart wrenching, emotionally trying, physically exhausting, sisyphean trail of tears, i probably would have still done it for the experience... but probably would have been done with it years ago.
i just dont understand why there is such a disparity in healthcare. most notable to me is nursing vs everyone else. nursing (including certified nurse aides) is the hardest job out there with the least amount of respect and recognition and the most amount of retribution whereas the MDs and people in administration get all the kudos and the money for smiling and talking a big game. but who does the actual follow up? the nurses.
so here's to all my nurses out there: past, present, and future: without us, the world would all be living in pain, dead, or a pretty much a zombie.
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